Election: Court Lifts Restraining Order On ANCLA
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has discharged it’s earlier ex-parte order granted on the January 9, 2019 stopping the conduct of election into the different offices of the Registered Trustees of Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agent (ANCLA).
Justice Saliu Saidu discharged the restraining order, following an application filed by Mr Dada Awosika and O.A Yakubu asking the court to set aside the order for want of Jurisdiction.
A faction of the association’s members in Lagos State led by Batuns International Global Link and Mr Babatunde Adekoya had sued the Registered Trustees of the Association of Nigeria Customs Licensed Agent, (ANCLA) and 19 others, praying the court among other reliefs, for an order stopping the defendants from conducting elections into the different offices into the Lagos chapter of the association.
Other defendants in the suit are: Mac-Tonnel Nigeria Limited, Mr. Tony I. Nwabunike, Wealthy Honey Investment Limited, Mr. Kayode Farinto, Mickey Excellence Nigeria Limited, Mikhaila Babatunde and 13 others.
The Judge further ruled that the plaintiffs been aware of the provisions of section 26 of ANCLA refused to disclose same before the court in obtaining the ex- parte order.
The judge said that if all the plaintiffs is seeking for is the interpretation of the ANCLA Constitution, then there won’t be need for an interim order of the court.
The judge further granted stay of proceedings in the matter pending the arbitral proceedings by the parties in accordance with the constitution of ANCLA.